Unfortunately this is a package of a package that does not use deb done by
someone else so I have to do the thinking for it. If ia32-libs is not
present on a 64 bit system the install simply fails with an unrelated error
message. I would rather not have two separate packages for i386 and amd64 if
I can do the dependencies with logic only. -- IV
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Eugene V. Lyubimkin <
jackyf.de...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ignacio Valdes wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a deb package that requires ia32-libs to run on a 64-bit
> > Debian/Ubuntu, otherwise it works without it on i386. I have tried in
> > the control file:
> >
> > Depends: ia32-libs [amd64]
> >
> > But that doesn't seem valid. How does one specify ia32-libs should be
> > a dependency when on 64 bit?
> >
> Shouldn't it be put automatically on amd64 arch by ${shlibs:Depends}?
>
> --
> Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
> C++/Perl developer, Debian Maintainer
>
>
